Posted on 09/11/2012 4:09:02 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
The federal air marshal who took George Zimmerman in after he shot Trayvon Martin has written a book about his controversial friend, and appeared on a national TV show Tuesday to say Zimmerman was a peaceful, loving and innocent man.
Mark Osterman, 44, is the friend who Zimmermans wife Shellie first called for help on Feb. 26, when her husband, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, shot an unarmed teenager. Osterman, a former Seminole County sheriffs deputy, went to the scene, accompanied Zimmerman to his police interrogations and took the couple in for more than a month while they were vilified in the national media.
Osterman and his wife, Sondra, appeared Tuesday on the Dr. Phil TV show to plug their new book, Defending our Friend: The Most Hated Man in America. The shows host, psychologist Phillip McGraw, hammered Osterman with questions, repeatedly suggesting Zimmerman was a Rambo who was to blame because he violated the basic premise of neighborhood watch programs by carrying a gun and getting out of his vehicle to track a suspect.
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I think you’ve had too many “good stiff drinks”. Either that or you just always post stupid things. I think you should go to jail just for that.
I just listened ( again ) to the 911 tape. If the prosecution is hanging their case on evidence like that then were all in trouble.
He had no business being a neighborhood busybody.
these vigilante groupos need disbanded. Security is an INDIVIDUAL matter, not a collective one.
I have nothing but contempt for these groups and the type of people, (authoritarian statists and cop wannabes), they attract.
Like I said, I wouldn’t lift a finger to help one of the dumb yinzers that live around me. And I defy anyone to ever stop ME, follow ME, or question ME for no reason.
Defending his neighbors my eye. He was being a meddler.
No, but if they get him for that I won’t complain.
That’ll teach them to try and defend the indefensible.
Maybe you should go stick your head in the toilet and flush it, wise guy.
Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened.
All he had to do was listen.
Put the bottle down and go to bed —
Maybe if he’d left well enough alone and got back in his truck like he was told to do none of this would have happened.
All he had to do was listen.
The tagline comes from Jimmy Stewart in “Its a Wonderful Life”
And no, I just hate vigilantes, HOA’s NW’s and neighborhood busybodies.
people need to mind their own damn business.
If GZ had done that, he wouldn’t have gotten his head bashed and a kid wouldn’t be dead.
Its you authoritarian statists control “watch everyone” folks who are the antithesis of American individualism.
No, I dislike Zimmerman because he was a Neighborhood Watch Nazi.
If it were up to me, I’d liquidate NW’s and HOA’s.
Bunch of petty block watch Hitlers.
He’s been hitting the sauce.
1. He was told he didn't have to follow, which is different from being told to get into his truck.
2. Even if he had disobeyed a dispatch clerk, that would not change the fact that his life appears to have been in immediate danger when he shot the thug who was beating him up.
3. While the fight may have been avoidable, that is not the question before the court. The court is there to rule on whether Zimmerman committed a specific criminal act - murder - not whether he showed poor judgement in some manner that night.
If you had any idea what you are talking about you would know he did try to do just that>
BullS#!+ on your premise. I am damn glad my neighbors watch out for things when I am not here.
I’ve been known to hit the sauce before posting. I wonder if I sounded like that?
I’ve been known to hit the sauce before posting. I wonder if I sounded like that?
Since you have a brain, even before the befuddling effects of alcohol, I strongly doubt it.
A fool and his money...
911 operators are NOT law enforcement officers, they are only there to dispatch emergency calls. They are not at the scene, and wouldn’t have any idea what he was facing.
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